(Closed) Calling All WNY/CNY/NNY Brides!

For all of us NYS brides who are not in the NY Metro area, I thought it would be great to compare where each of us is hosting our nuptials. One would never guess it based on the majority of wedding blogs out there, but there are brides in existence north of the city. I live in WNY currently but am a Thousand Islands region native so our wedding will take place over two days next summer on the St. Lawrence River right in the midst of the islands.

I’m getting married in Little Falls, NY – Outskirts of the Adirondak park, Mohawk Valley. We are having an October wedding – hoping the foliage will be intense. I’m a CNY Native, Cortland area. We searched from the Finger Lakes to the Thousand Islands before settleing on our venue. Hope it all comes together.

I’m excited about this board! I currently live in Boston, but moving to Baltimore MD soon… but grew up and went to college in CNY, and will be getting married in Skaneateles, a little town in the Fingerlakes near Syracuse. Yay CNY!

We live in Ithaca and are getting married at the Fontainebleau Inn in Alpine, which is SW on Route 13 between Ithaca and Watkins Glen. It’s close to both Seneca and Cayuga Lakes but is actually on CayuTa Lake – I have to tell people every time that I do mean to say "T" instead of "G!"

As for vendors, the wedding is being catered by Word of Mouth (two very very cool women in Trumansburg, who are using my grandpa’s chocolate beet cake recipe to make our cupcakes/cake), and the "flower-lady" is Audrey Norberg from Plenty of Posies – she has a stand at the Ithaca Market and grows most of the flowers on her farm. Our photographer is Laura Kozlowski, who recently moved to Ithaca from Boston (as did we), and Rabbi David Regenspan is officiating. We found online an article he wrote about why he performs interfaith weddings and under what circumstances, and I felt like it described us really well. He’s a little quirky and has a son who’s an Oberlin alum, just like me, so I thought that was a good sign. My dress is being made by Chrissy Wai-Ching in Seattle, which is about as un-local as I could get, but I just couldn’t resist…

Right now we’re looking for a mellow rehearsal dinner space in the area (preferably near Alpine, since a lot of the guests will be staying closer to there than to Ithaca) that’s pretty inexpensive. Most of our guests will actually be at the Rehearsal Dinner because most of them are from out of town.